Dec 30th Letter

Good Morning!!!!!!!!!

How are yall doing? It was good to visit with yall on Christmas! Even though we had some struggle with the internet connection but that is Navasota for ya!

Here is what happened this week.

On Monday was our  Mission Christmas Conference and it was really good this year but not as good as last years but it’s all good. This year there was two Mission Conferences due to the mission being really big. President Pingree and others talked about Christ and his role in our life. The highlight of the conference was seeing all the other missionaries I haven’t seen for a while but one the coolest part was President Pingree. So we had a projector that was on the whole time which at this point is going on about 4 hours and not being turned off. Well someone was up singing and all of the sudden I smelled smoke and I was on the front row. I looked back and the paper that was covering the project caught on fire! It was a flame with lots of smoke. But good ol President made a joke saying it was kryptonite holy cow it even melted part of a hymn book. Ha ha it was the funniest thing i have seen in a while

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was really good. The highlight was being able to talk with yall. But we got treated very well for the holidays. We went to members houses for Christmas and Christmas Eve and had a lot of food. MMMMHMMM!!!

MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We Have 2 Baptismal Dates for 2nd of FEB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our investigators Joe and Elizabeth O'neill accepted that date!!!!!!! Man Iwas so happy when they said yes. It was awesome how the topic of baptism was brought up several times during our lesson with them. The whole Branch was so excited to hear the progress that we are making, and everyone else is shocked that we got 2 dates. They are just progressing really well so far. We met with them on Thursday and had dinner with them and a lesson it was good. They are actually remembering what we are teaching and it’s just going really smoothly I’m so stoked.

Missionary Moment

Today I was doing my reading and I found something in a section of the Doctrine of Covenants, it’s in section 46. I read this yesterday but I looked over it again. It talks about the gifts of the spirit and the gifts that we can find in ourself. I encourage yall and I am doing it myself to find what gifts of the spirit that we have in ourselfs.

Also I had the opportunity to give my second talk so far on my mission. The first one was on Mother’s Day of 2012 and then it was yesterday. I gave the talk on “How to live the gospel more fully" I focused more of my talk on prayer and how that can affect us in living it more fully and help with missionary work. Here are some quotes from my talk :

“Heavenly Father is pleased when you get on your knees and ask for help, and then get on your feet and go to work. He will help you in all righteous pursuits, but he seldom will do something for you, that you can do yourself" - True To the Faith

“This Gospel is an intimate thing. It is not some distant concept; It is applicable in our lives. IT CAN CHANGE OUR VERY NATURE"- Pres Hinckley

In closing I want to let all yall know I love you and that I pray for you often. I enjoy the opportunity I have each week to write yall an email. Sooner than later it will be in person and it will be better, I have much love for yall and think about yall constantly and how yall are doing.

Love

Elder Kendall Christensen